TERMINAL REDUX

As prog-metal Youtuber 'Mike the Music Snob' recently explained, many bands earn their prog label simply on account of their sounding "like other progressive bands that we've heard before." While this may be true even of many bands and albums on this list site, Vektor's 'Terminal Redux' is an album that is squarely in the category of prog metal albums that innovate and advance the genre forward.

The music on this record is bonified uncompromising thrash metal. But the riffs and chords are allowed to venture into exceptionally emotive places, even full on major scale passages. Perhaps most impressively, the thrash metal manages to successfully convey the drama and emotion of the album's detailed and ambitious storyline about a lauded but megalomaniacal spaceship commander who harnesses a cosmic power to first save humanity, but then pursue domination.